Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [verb] around the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other Commando units were spread around the village in a very tight perimeter , and in places very close to the German positions . |
| 2 | Harvey 's two kids were chasing around the trees in their pyjamas . |
| 3 | There existed at that time , a real threat of an invasion of the British Isles by the French forces under Napoleon , so militia groups were formed and Martello Towers were erected around the more vulnerable coast line , to ward off and give warning of any sign of an invading fleet . |
| 4 | Pictures were flashed around the world of the two of them cavorting recklessly on a beach . |
| 5 | Dinner parties were built around the episodes . |
| 6 | Through the holes in the side of the Hongkong Banking Group building in Bishopsgate , papers fluttered on desks , books were scattered around the rooms . |
| 7 | In the closing years of the nineteenth century , just as the eastern Germans were leaving the land and deserting the east , at the very time that the Polish population of the border districts was on the rise , the theoretical and practical policies of both the Polenpolitik and the Kulturkampf were hardening around the drive towards industrial and imperial expansion — if not overseas , which was almost impossible — then in the eastern borderlands . |
| 8 | The whole episode was built around the book and before very long , and not for the first time , the fascist implications were there again , not only as far as Alf was concerned but , by implication , involving me too . |
| 9 | Major area of the damage to the aircraft was centred around the propellers and undersides of the aircraft . |
| 10 | When 26-year-old Tim Haller , from Horncastle , Lincs , bought a double-decker bus in 1988 , his great ambition was to travel around the world in it . |
| 11 | ‘ The concept for the last album was based around the idea that , if we 're going to use music to stop the destruction of the world , we need to look outwards . |
| 12 | Most of the resultant industry was concentrated around the new town of Middlesbrough , but in 1864 the Middleston Iron Company was founded . |
| 13 | Heavy fighting was reported around the cities of Shaqlawa and Sulaimaniya on April 13 in which 150 government troops were said to have been killed . |
| 14 | Fighting was concentrated around the towns of Bosanski Brod in the north and Neum in the south . |
| 15 | In contrast the American pairings were a mere nine under par between them , albeit on an afternoon when the wind was swirling around the course causing all sorts of problems with club selection . |
| 16 | In the Republic , as in the North , a parents ' movement to set up integrated schools was started around the same time . |
| 17 | Four of the eight servants in the Lundy household were seated around the scrubbed kitchen table , drinking tea , finishing their breakfast . |
| 18 | Low couches and upholstered cushions were dotted around the floor . |
| 19 | Spotlights were erected around the shelves . |
| 20 | Last year more than 12 million Z80 chips were sold around the world and incorporated into computers , telecommunications equipment and peripherals . |
| 21 | The traditional village was centred around the church with its white walls and red or grey stonework . |
| 22 | Mr Evans also claimed signalling difficulties were caused because Capt Brown 's starting flag was wrapped around the stick after the second start . |
| 23 | A butterfly was flapping around the wheelbarrow looking for a fragrance to match the colour of that great metallic flower . |
| 24 | A six-mile exclusion zone was ordered around the ship while a tug towed the casualty further offshore . |
| 25 | The little Spring Mill was built around the middle of the 19th century . |
| 26 | LATIN American reaction to the new Bush Administration assertiveness remained unclear yesterday as troops were deployed around the US embassy in Nicaragua , and diplomats warned that the invasion of Panama was a dangerous precedent which could be used to justify further US intervention in the region . |
| 27 | James Price , Tom , Dolly and Carrie were seated around the room . |
| 28 | Before Mum or Dad could say a word , Natalie was jumping around the hall , singing , ‘ I 'm a Rainbow , I 'm a Rainbow ! ’ much to the amusement of all my Brownie friends . |
| 29 | Opinion was mobilised around the paradoxical notion that it was Black people who represented a threat to the rule of law in Britain . |
| 30 | The Croydon was bounced around the sky like a pong-pong ball , and Fred Crocombe watched in grim horror as the Kollsman altimeter recorded prodigious amount of ascent and descent . |